For the decoration

Method

Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4 and place 24 cupcake cases into cupcake tins. Beat the butter and sugar together with electric beaters or a tabletop mixer until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, 250g flour, baking powder, orange zest and juice and beat well till thick, creamy and evenly mixed.

Toss cherries in the extra 2 tbsp flour and fold into the batter along with grated marzipan and almond essence (if using). Spoon into the cupcake cases and bake for 20-25 mins, or until well risen and golden. Leave to cool in tin for 10 mins, then place on a cooling rack to cool completely.

Mix the icing sugar with around 1 tbsp water to make a loose but not-too-runny icing. Ice the tops of the cupcakes and top each one with about 3 mini chocolate eggs.

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Comments, questions and tips

These cupcakes are absolutely delicious. A lot of cupcakes are so boring with very minimal flavour, but these have a wonderful almond taste. Texture is nice and soft too. Agree with previous reviewers that cutting the cherries into quarters is a good idea, and the recipe makes 36 cakes.

Jojos Cakes

1st Oct, 2013

Yummy but simple. I made a similar version last Easter but used Lindt chocolate balls for instead of eggs. Here are some of my cupcakes www.jojoscakes.com/what-i-do/cupcakes

tteeddyy

9th Apr, 2012

4.05

very nice and easy :-)

towler

7th Jul, 2011

5.05

I found that the recipe actually made 36 fairy cakes, rather than 24.

mifmif5

21st Apr, 2011

4.05

My husband loved these. I left out the marzipan as we had none and added some almond essence and ground almonds instead and worked fine.
I also chopped the cherries into quarters so they were evenly distributed.
They all went in a matter of minutes!

cakesforlife

18th Apr, 2011

I made these cakes for my latest bake sale and they went down really well www.cakesforlife.com

glitzyrainbow7

30th Mar, 2011

4.05

Also, I's use a bit more icing than the recipe states, as using half the mix I used 75g of icing sugar, but only a trickle per cake!

glitzyrainbow7

30th Mar, 2011

4.05

I cooked this recipe twice, both times with a halfed recipe as I used bun cases instead of cupcake cases. The first time I didn't use enough butter, but they were still good. The second time half my batch got burned bottoms and sides... :( I think it was because the oven was too hot (someone else was also using it). They were still yummy though!!
:D

Honeygran

9th Mar, 2011

5.05

Easy to make and very tasty. I have made these as in the recipe last Easter, and also with piped orange butter cream. Grandchildren liked them - but they are cherry lovers!

foodbyhayley

6th Apr, 2010

I made these as a treat for Easter!
They were really delicious, soft and very morish!!!
They were very sweet indeed, nice with a cup of tea!
I used orange juice instead of water and also made marzipan eggs instead of mini chocolate eggs because i didnt think chocolate would compliment these!

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